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Classic Cinema Comedies
Miller Theatre screens The Thin Man, A Day at the Races and Some Like it Hot
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 14, 2008
Find your funny bone at Miller Outdoor Theatre’s three-night run of Classic Cinema Comedies. Tuesday, it’s 1934’s The Thin Man with William Powell and Myrna Loy...
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Labor Day Show
Cinema Bomar’s latest installment features filmstrips about a hard day’s work
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: August 14, 2008
Cinema Bomar is getting to work early with its Labor Day Show. Weeks before our official day off, the collective will screen a round of vintage filmstrips about the daily...
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“Rediscovered Gems: A Concert of Masterpieces from Opera, Broadway, and the Great American Songbook”
Houston Ebony Opera gives us masterworks lite
By Julia Ramey
Published: August 14, 2008
Audiences never tire of the great music numbers presented in “Rediscovered Gems: A Concert of Masterpieces from Opera, Broadway, and the Great American Songbook” by...
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Milana
She loves me, she loves me not gets the Bollywood treatment
By Julia Ramey
Published: August 14, 2008
With singing, dancing, India’s lush environs and, most importantly, a schmaltzy love story, the hit film Milana has all the Bollywood hallmarks. Things are going great for...
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Harvest Grand Finale Vintner Dinner
Messina Hof Winery celebrates its 2008 ports
By Amanda Mahmoudi
Published: August 14, 2008
Messina Hof Winery celebrates the end of this year’s grape harvest with the Harvest Grand Finale Vintner Dinner. For weeks now, both workers and volunteers have been...
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Third Coast Comedy Theater Second Anniversary Celebration
A chicken, a road, a hell of a good time
By Alex Begley
Published: August 14, 2008
Third Coast Comedy has a big bash planned in the Third Coast Comedy Second Anniversary Celebration. Things start off with a wine tasting by Galveston’s D’ Vine Wine...
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“Left Alone”
ArtStorm showcases photographers who get lonely
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: August 14, 2008
ArtStorm is picturing loneliness. The gallery’s latest exhibit, “Left Alone,” features photography focusing on isolation and introspection. Rachel Hewlett snaps...
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FrenetiCore Fringe Festival
A heaping sampler of local theater, dance, film and music
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: August 14, 2008
Houston is adding more fringe. After the success of BooTown’s Fringe Festival, other artistic types are rising out of the underground and onto the stage. The FrenetiCore...
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“In the Soil: Nicaragua”
Photographer Ryan Booth documents a trip to the coffee fields of Central America
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 14, 2008
In April of this year, photographer Ryan Booth and some fellow coffee shop hounds went to Nicaragua with a simple mission: Meet the people on the other end of the supply chain...
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Rock the Lockup: 2008 Prison Reform Film Festival
Tales from the big house get on the big screen
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: August 14, 2008
The big house is moving to the big screen. Rock The Lockup: 2008 Prison Reform Film Festival features flicks about life behind bars. The fest kicks off today with the story of...
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The Gougers
Texas twang meets indie rock
By TAMMY PORTNOY
Published: August 14, 2008
The Gougers are equal parts Texas twang and indie rock. The four-piece group has three shows today, so you’ll have no excuse for missing them play “oldcrow /...
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“CINCO IV”
Bering & James closes out the summer with a show of brand-new works
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 14, 2008
Bering & James’s latest exhibit, “CINCO IV,” is made up of five works created just for the show by each of the gallery’s artists. All in all, there will be...
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How to Draw a Bunny
This artist documentary isn’t only for art lovers
By Nick Keppler
Published: August 14, 2008
Like The Devil and Daniel Johnston and Neil Young: A Heart of Gold, 2002’s How to Draw a Bunny is that rarest type of documentary, the kind about an artistic person...
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Dan Kopp and Jay Davis
Two Brooklyn artists show off their new works
By Julia Ramey
Published: August 14, 2008
With a perfect balance between eye candy and food for the mind, CTRL Gallery pre-sents works by two Brooklyn-based artists. Dan Kopp deals in the space between figurations and...
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Toypunks
Add hyper to active and mix in Japanese kitsch
By LEIGH BEGLEY
Published: August 14, 2008
Toy-meets-world in the mesmerizing documentary Toypunks, a fast-paced chronicle of Japanese punk culture that touches on music and fashion but focuses mostly on toys. The film,...
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Joe Lansdale
The Houston Public Library hosts an award-winning Texas noir writer
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 14, 2008
In Leather Maiden, Joe Lansdale’s lead character Cason Statler has big troubles. He lost his last job in Houston because of, ah, shall we say, ill-advised love affairs...
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La France
Serge Bozon’s film is about love and war, set to music
By Julia Ramey
Published: August 14, 2008
War movies and pop music: They’re not the most common of bedfellows, but leave it to a French filmmaker to bring the two together in 2007’s La France, screening today...
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Chris Grabenstein
The author of Mad Mouse signs his new adult title, Hell Hole, and new young adult release, The Crossroads
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 14, 2008
Chris Grabenstein’s character John Ceepak has a simple code: “I will not tolerate those who lie, cheat or steal.” Needless to say, Ceepak is a cop. And in Hell...
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“The Black List Project: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and Elvis Mitchell”
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston hosts an art exhibit and documentary film about the African-American experience
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 14, 2008
Colin Powell, Chris Rock, Al Sharpton and Serena Williams. What do they have in common? Just this: They are black in America. Oh, and they’re included in “The Black...
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Game On
Lightsabers and Tits Don't Quite Hide Soul Calibur IV's Lack of Ideas
A Bit Force-ed
By Gary Hodges
Published: August 14, 2008
You hear the same words used over and over to describe Soul Calibur IV, words like forced. Jarring. Anachronistic. But to me, the word that describes shoehorning Darth Vader...
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